[PERMANENTLY CLOSED]"Pigs in a blanket" Black Lives Matter Chant During Police Escorted March

[TheBarrd]

And the gang problem is a drug problem. Legalize it or de-criminalize it. Then this "black on black" meme can die.

Let me get this straight...drug 'em up, and they'll quit killing each other?
Yeah...got it.

 

[Red Fox]

And the gang problem is a drug problem. Legalize it or de-criminalize it. Then this "black on black" meme can die.

I think this problem also stems from the social and economic struggles of poverty that many African Americans still face in this country today. I think that if these specific issues were addressed more accurately and successfully, then there might not be such a problem with gangs or illegal drugs in their communities in the future.

 

[Sistrin]

I think this problem also stems from the social and economic struggles of poverty that many African Americans still face in this country today. I think that if these specific issues were addressed more accurately and successfully, then there might not be such a problem with gangs or illegal drugs in their communities in the future.

Yeah, because drug dealers used to making hundreds or thousands of dollars a day are going to go to work for McDonalds if they would only pay fifteen dollars an hour.

 

[Red Fox]

Yeah, because drug dealers used to making hundreds or thousands of dollars a day are going to go to work for McDonalds if they would only pay fifteen dollars an hour.

I may be optimistic, wanting to better the lives of people in poverty, but I think that the drug problem can be dealt with or at least be kept at bay, and the social and economic issues of poverty that plague not only African Americans, but other minorities as well, such as Native Americans, can be addressed and be successfully dealt with over time. I never said it would be easy and it may or may not be successful after being tried for a long period of time, but I do think that it is definitely worth a try.

 

[SoldierOfTheKing]

Looking like it.

WBC holds up signs celebrating the death of gays and non-gays alike and the BLM calls for the death of cops.

The similarity is that its actions seem to be specifically designed to make people angry at them, including those who might otherwise be sympathetic to them. Perhaps especially those who might otherwise be sympathetic to them.

 

[Korah]

For those newly attracted (like me, "Trump made me do it") to "American Politics" here in CF:
"WBC" = "Westboro Baptist Church"
(For those who think we're talking about Jimmy Swaggart or Jerry Falwell, they're members of the lone wolf congregation in Kansas (or was it "Oz"?) that shouts "God hates [deleted]" and stages protests at funerals of servicemen who died in combat.)

 

[Gadarene]

And the gang problem is a drug problem. Legalize it or de-criminalize it. Then this "black on black" meme can die.

Funny how nuance appears when it's not white people that are being criticised

 

[TheBarrd]

I may be optimistic, wanting to better the lives of people in poverty, but I think that the drug problem can be dealt with or at least be kept at bay, and the social and economic issues of poverty that plague not only African Americans, but other minorities as well, such as Native Americans, can be addressed and be successfully dealt with over time. I never said it would be easy and it may or may not be successful after being tried for a long period of time, but I do think that it is definitely worth a try.

Do you think that there have not been programs to try to deal with these problems? Dear Sister, there have been many.
But people have to want help before any effort to help is going to do any good.

And, as someone else said, drugs are very big business...dealers make thousands of dollars every day. Well, at least they can't complain about poverty, can they? Yet they still seem to live in impoverished neighborhoods...hmmm...

Efforts to improve black neighborhoods generally fail miserably, because the people who live there generally destroy such efforts even before the work is finished. I've seen it myself.

And you have heard of the NAACP, right? One of the things they do is to grant scholarships to young black men and women who are eligible for college but can't afford the tuition.

Now, I can't say what goes on on reservations in other areas of the country...but the one near my home, the Poarch Creek Indian reservation, is a beautiful place to live. That Casino is bringing in a lot of money. Gambling is not legal in Alabama...but, as you know, the Reservation is under federal, not state law. Riding through that reservation is like riding through the neighborhood directly adjacent to the hospital...fine, big, beautiful homes with gorgeous landscaping...if those people are living in poverty, they are doing a fine job of hiding it. Any hovels, like the houses in my neighborhood, are certainly not in evidence.

 

[JustOneWay]

Also: gotta love the "sea of whiteness" part. What's that called... race baiting?

Well.....

It isn't exactly race baiting when statistics are on his side. "sea of whiteness" at a republican event is a fairly accurate comment.

 

[HannahT]

And the gang problem is a drug problem. Legalize it or de-criminalize it. Then this "black on black" meme can die.

Your saying 'gangs' are only about drugs huh? You are seriously naive, or your trying divert off the subject. Violence doesn't end that easily, and you know as well as I do.

Go ahead and keep ignoring. Your message will continue to be received as: Black Lives Matter - as long as they don't live in gang infested areas. OH! Unless of course they get in a shoot out with police, and get hurt! THEN 'their' lifes matter, but yet again...not the residents that they terrorize and kill on regular basis. You do realize that looks like your sticking up for criminals, and not decent, hard working, regular folks right?

lol That's right....they will be find in Disneyland when 'drugs' are legal, or decriminalized.

Good luck with that messaging.

 

[NightHawkeye]

Well.....

It isn't exactly race baiting when statistics are on his side. "sea of whiteness" at a republican event is a fairly accurate comment.

American "whites" have led the world in many things. This poll is just one more area.

 

[JustOneWay]

American "whites" have led the world in many things. This poll is just one more area.

Yes, this poll shows that whites lead the way in the Republican party.

That was the point.

 

[HannahT]

I may be optimistic, wanting to better the lives of people in poverty, but I think that the drug problem can be dealt with or at least be kept at bay, and the social and economic issues of poverty that plague not only African Americans, but other minorities as well, such as Native Americans, can be addressed and be successfully dealt with over time. I never said it would be easy and it may or may not be successful after being tried for a long period of time, but I do think that it is definitely worth a try.

Red Fox - blacks and minorities aren't the only ones effected by ALL of what you mentioned! The war on poverty failed big time, and sadly as we know the war on drugs...ain't doing much better!

Gangs run more than just drugs. They have their fingers in all kinds of evil, and they don't get a damn who they hurt. Yet, because we ALWAYS have to place 'ie' after everything, because people would rather take that literally then address the point? Yes, some people would like to leave gangs...but can't.

People have been trying forever to change things (black, white, etc), and government to me isn't working with us. Then you have those in those neighborhoods that won't 'snitch', because they don't want to get killed. WELL, along with the attitude that snitching is a cultural evil too.

Someone needs to get strong enough to talk some of these people into standing UP for their neighborhood, and make it COOL again! They have lost hope, and they need that too. Sadly, its easy to blame the crackers...its harder to do what needs to be done. They need to feel their life's matter in a bigger sense, because in certain circumstances...they don't. It's sad.

 

[TheBarrd]

I was just a kid when Martin Luther King had his dream...but I remember it quite well.
But, sadly, I don't think that this BLM movement was what he had in mind..."pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon" is a far cry from "Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

 

[HannahT]

Yes, this poll shows that whites lead the way in the Republican party.

That was the point.

Republican or Democrat - under the theme of this thread - have done next to nothing for anyone. Democrat's are good at emotionally manipulating things to make you FEEL they do (I'll hand them that), but they have nothing. GOP? They are far from straight A in this department either.

People are having hissies about Trump, because they don't like the way he speaks his mind. He's an entertainer. lol - yeah! Both parties read the polls, write the scripts from what the found from the polls, play up what you told them to say...and pretend they are not actors and entertainers either. For goodness sakes - their all entertainers!

Everything is so well scripted, because something MIGHT be taken out of context by some moron. Lord help us if that happens, because lol then the personal attacks come next... and of course claims of 'hating' whatever the subject matter is. This will go on for weeks, because the elite is afraid of substance...so they play games - and we fall for it. The political elite and the political media play this every election...and nothing ever gets done RIGHT! It's just better to blame the other guy, because THAT will FIX THEM!

Their all clowns.

 

[PreachersWife2004]

No I didn't. It looked much like a GOP convention with a sea of whiteness.

And to say "all lives matter" is to denigrate what the black community sees as to what they face on a daily basis. That's the truth.

I say that All Lives Matter. I don't denigrate anyone's situation when I do so. I also believe, though, that we are often the victims of our own bad choices. I believe in personal responsibility, and that has nothing to do with skin color.

Your characterization of "a sea of whiteness" being racist is noted, as well. I know a good number of non-white republicans. They get called Uncle Tom A LOT by their fellow brothers and sisters. Nice.

And in solidarity, as a Native American, I stand with them, because our experiences and our social and economic conditions in this country aren't that different.

Ooh. More white guilt to be heaped upon us!

 

[JustOneWay]

Republican or Democrat - under the theme of this thread - have done next to nothing for anyone.

I disagree. Both parties help all kinds of people. The only difference between the two are which types of groups receive more or less help.

 

[Red Fox]

I disagree. Both parties help all kinds of people. The only difference between the two are which types of groups receive more or less help.

I agree. Well said.

 

[Blank Stair]

Well.....

It isn't exactly race baiting when statistics are on his side. "sea of whiteness" at a republican event is a fairly accurate comment.

So by contrast the 2008 Democratic National Convention was a sea of blackness?

All lives matter. People who are concerned with equity in justice would know this. Because it is the life of the individual that is affected when racial bias, and crimes against one's own community terrorize a free people, meaning all Americans, due to the regularity of it.
The image is skewed. The victim card too readily thrown on the table.
When in black communities families sit on their floors to watch TV, eat dinner, because they're afraid they'll be killed by a stray bullet through the window, they're not sitting there because of the white gun crime outside.
When billionaire, millionaire, rappers today spit their rhymes about their crimes and the ghetto lifestyle they lived, while they exploited the drug culture to their advantage and further crippled an already addicted community of users, ran prostitutes that were their own neighbors, killed people in the name of business, and brag that now they're livin large for rhyming about it, they're not talking about white culture. White community.

Black lives matter? Why don't black people prove it by not killing each other?

Rather than making excuses for blowing away white cops? Chanting, no justice no peace, as they do when someone in their community was killed trying to beat a cop to death. Michael Brown. A thug who used his size as a weapon on the last day of his life.
Black lives matter? He didn't think so else he wouldn't have tried to assault a cop in his own cop car, working to get his service weapon away from him for what purpose? And then when he could have ran from the scene where he'd just pummeled that officer who was sitting in his patrol car, he turned instead and thought to charge him as he would have had be once again been on a football field.
Large black thug vs. police officers service weapon that Michael Brown would have seen pointed at himself and charged regardless. And he died.
People asked in the media, why didn't the officer run? That's not what they're trained to do.

Black lives matter?
All lives matter.
Those who get upset at that fact are what make the problem even worse. It isn't a black thing. It isn't a white thing. It's a sin thing. It's a lack of character thing.
There are bad cops, yes, there are. But that doesn't mean all cops should be hunted and killed because one bad cop shot one person.
ALL LIVES MATTER.
Those who don't believe that are those who chant during a march led by police: pigs in a blanket fry em like bacon.

 

[Blank Stair]

I say that All Lives Matter. I don't denigrate anyone's situation when I do so. I also believe, though, that we are often the victims of our own bad choices. I believe in personal responsibility, and that has nothing to do with skin color.

Your characterization of "a sea of whiteness" being racist is noted, as well. I know a good number of non-white republicans. They get called Uncle Tom A LOT by their fellow brothers and sisters. Nice.




Ooh. More white guilt to be heaped upon us!

Only if you let it stick. "White Privilege", white guilt trip efforts, are weapons of racists. Step aside and let the heaping shovel full fall at the feet of the haters. Maybe the smell of hypocrisy while pursuing an agenda of reverse racism will snap them out of it.